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Carl Brockelmann
Carl Brockelmann German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur which included all writers in Arabic to 1937, and remains the fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature, apart from the Christian Arabic texts... Read More
| Born | 17 September 1868 Rostock, now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State, Germany |
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| Died | 6 May 1956 (aged 87) Halle an der Saale, now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany |
| Occupation | German Author, University of Wrocław professor, Orientalist, Semiticist |
